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abstractions

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The shame is not so much the obvious absurdity as that such a reading, clutching at alien abstractions, finds no place to observe the perfect specificity of describing honeycombs as "clammy cells."

Those works were large, oceanic abstractions that incorporated a kaleidoscopic range of color.

Questions of business and commerce are not neglected in this guide, from the most basic rural matters ( pick-up “agricultural equipment for the collection and storage of lucerne, hay, etc.”--the hay being made, no doubt, from ray-grass “a sort of English turf”) to the abstractions of high finance.

A Lauren clone (read: "khakis") at the outset, he identified an underserved fashion niche--urban black America, which was drawn to Lauren's WASPy abstractions but alienated by their overstated inaccessibility.

Like Macdonald's fictitious scientist, it is uncomfortable with abstractions.